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OJo’s reputation for wifdotn and fan&ity, that the popes, 
the bifhops, and the fecular princes, paid the utmoit de¬ 
ference to his counfeis, and frequently conftituted him 
the arbiter of their difputes. In the year 936, he took a 
journey to Rome, at the requeft of pope Leo VII. where 
he was fuccefsful in mediating a peace between Alberic 
prince of Rome and Hugh king bf Italy. Two years af¬ 
terwards he went to Rome a fecond time, and, by his influ¬ 
ence with Hugh, prevailed upon him to withdraw from 
the liege of the city. In 94a, he paid a third vi fit to Rome, 
on religion's motives ; and, while he was in that city, he 
was attacked by a fevere diforder, which obliged him to 
liaften his return to France, where he died at Rheims, in 
the fixty-fourth year of his age. He was author of feve- 
ral works, which are collected in the 17th volume of the 
Bibl. Patrum. 
Mabillon (Acta San cl. ord. 5. Bened. tom. vii. p. 126.) 
ranks Odo at the head of literature and the polite arts, at 
the beginning of the tenth century. He ftudied under 
St. Remi, at Paris; and, among other fciences, applied 
liimfelfTo fuccefsfully to muflc, that he was afterwards 
regarded as the molt learned mufician of his time. In his 
feveral voyages to Rome, in 936, 938, and 942, it is natural 
to fuppofe, he acquired a perfect knowledge of the Gre¬ 
gorian chant, and was initiated in all the refinements that 
were then praftifed in St. Peter’s church, and the pontifi¬ 
cal chapel. Some of his hymns, chants, and anthems, are 
ftill preferved in the Romilh church ; and there are two 
copies of a MS. traft upon mufic, of his writing, in the 
king of France’s library at Paris. His celebrated Enchi¬ 
ridion is written in dialogue, and mentioned with refpefit 
even by Guido liimfelf: “ Incipit fcholium Enchiridij de 
arte mulica.” The dialogue is'between a mailer and his . 
difciple; and in this treatife the barbarous and unmean¬ 
ing words, in Gothic letters, occur, which the Greek 
church ufea during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh, cen¬ 
turies, to charafiterife the modes or tones: as, Nonanoeane, 
Noearie, Noioeane, Anoais, &c. Terms like thefe are ftill 
retained by the modern Greeks in their eccleiiaftical 
mufic, as we find by Leo Allatius, and by the abate 
Martini. 
O'DO CANTIA'NUS, fo called as being a native of 
Kent, in England, was a Benedifitine monk in the twelfth 
century, in which order his learning and eloquence raifed 
him to the dignity of prior and abbot. Archbilhop Becket 
was his friend j and his panegyric was made by John of 
Salisbury. He compofed commentaries on the Pentateuch, 
and the Second Book of Kings ; Moral Reflections on the 
Pfalms; treatifes entitled De Onere Philiftini; DeMoribus 
Ecclefiafticis; De Vitiis et Virtutibus Animce; See. 
ODOA'CER, the firft barbarian king of Italy, and 
who efi’efted the extinction of the Empire of the Weft by 
the depofition of Auguftulus, A. D. 476 or thereabouts. 
See Goths, vol. viii. p. 728, 9. and the article Rome. 
ODOEV', a town of RulTia, in the government of Tula, 
ontheUpha: fifty-two miles weft of Tula. Lat.53. 50. N. 
Ion. 36. 14. E. 
ODO'LI HO'TUN, a town of Chinefe Tartary: 552 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Pekin. Lat. 43. 32. N. Ion. 127. 
38. E. 
ODOL'LAN, f. in botany. See Cerbera. 
ODOM'ETER, f. An inllrument for meafuring the 
diftance palled over in travelling. See Pedometer. 
ODON'CK, a fort of France, in the department of the 
Scheldt, on the Lys : fix miles below Ghent. 
ODONTA'GRA,/ [from the Gr. ooag, a tooth, and 
aygivu, to feize.] An inllrument for drawing.teeth. Alfo 
a gouty pain in the teeth. 
ODONTAL'GIA, f. [from the Gr. oJa;, a tooth, and 
a\yo<;, pain.] The tooth-ache. 
ODONTAL'GIC, adj. Pertaining to the tooth-ache. 
ODONTI'ASIS, f. The breeding of the teeth. 
ODON'TIC, adj. [oJa;, Gr. a tooth.] Belonging to the 
teeth. Cole. 
ODON'TICS, f. Remedies for the tooth-ache. 
ODON'TITES, f. in botany. See Bupleurum-, Eu¬ 
phrasia, and Lychnis-. 
ODONTOGNA'THUS. See Ophidium. 
ODONTOI'DE, /.’ [from the Gr. w^a;, a tooth, and 
£i 5 o?, a lhape.] In anatomy, the procefs of the fecond ver¬ 
tebra, fo called from its refemblance to a tooth. 
ODONTOLI'THOS, /! [from the Gr. oJa?, a tooth, 
and Aifio;, a ftone.] The ftony concretion that grows on 
the teeth. 
ODONTOPHY'IA, f. [Greek.] The breeding of the 
teeth. 
ODONTOTRIM'MA,/ [Greek.] A medicine to rub 
the teeth. Ajh. 
O'DOR. See Odour. 
OD'ORAMENT, f. [odoramentum, Lat.] A perfume; 
any ftrong feent.—To thefe you may add odor aments, per¬ 
fumes, and fuffumigations. Burton's Anat. of Aid. 
ODORA'TA, f. in botany.’ See Scandix. 
OD'OR ATE, adj. [odoratus, Lat. od.orato, Ital.] Scented; 
having a ftrong feent, whether fetid or fragrant.—-Smell¬ 
ing is with a communication of the breath, or vapour of 
the objeft odorate. Bacon's Nat. Hift. —Some oriental kind 
of liguftrum, producing a fweet and odorate bufti of flow¬ 
ers. Sir T. Brown's Alifcell. 
ODOR A'TION, j\ The aCt or fenfe of fuelling. Bailey. 
ODORIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. odor, a fmelJ, 
and fero, to bring.] Giving feent; ufually, fweet of feent; 
fragrant; perfumed.—Smelling bodies fend forth effluvias 
of fleams, without fenfibiy wafting. A grain of rnufk will 
fend forth odoriferous particles for fcores of years, with¬ 
out its being fpent. Locke. 
Gentle gales 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, difpenfe 
Native perfumes, and whifper whence they ftole 
Thefe balmy fpoils.. Milton's P. L. 
ODORIF'EROUSNESS, /. Sweetnefs of feent; fra¬ 
grance. 
O'DOROUS, adj. [ odorus , Lat. odoren.v, old French-] 
Milton has once placed the accent on the fecond fyllabie 
of this word; which, Mr. Nares fays, is a licence found 
only in this paflage, and, if the etymology were confidered, 
would be accounted right. But this accentuation is not 
peculiarto Milton.] Fragrant; perfumed; fweet of (cent.— 
The hills, and dales, that plants odorous bare. Tran)', of Ma¬ 
rino by T. R. 167 5.—We fmell, becaufe parts of the odorous 
body touch the nerves of our noftrils. Chei/nc's Phil. Priu. 
Such fragrant flowers do give mod odorous fmell, 
But her fweet odour did them all excel. Spenjer. 
The bright confummate flower 
Spirits odorous breathes. Aliltons P. L. 
ODOVA'RA, a feaport-town of Japan, in the ifland of 
Niphon: 120 miles eaft-north-eaft of Meaco. 
O'DOUR, f. [odor, Lat. odeur, Fr.] Scent, whether 
good or bad.—Democritus, when he laya-dying, fent for 
loaves of new bread, which, having opened and poured a 
little wine into them, he kept liimfelf alive with the odour 
till a certain feaft was paft. Bacon. —Infulions in air, for lo 
we may call odours, have the fame diverfities with infufions 
in water; in that the feveral odours which are in one flower 
or other body, iflue at feveral times, fome- earlier, fome 
later. Bacon. 
Where filver riv’lets play thro’ flow’ry meads, 
And woodbines give their fweets, and limes their (hades, 
Biack kennels’ abfent odours (lie regrets, 
And flops her nofe at beds *of violets. Young. 
Fragrance; perfume; fweet feent.—The Levites burned 
the holy incenfe in fuch quantities, as refrelhed the whole 
multitude with its odours, and filled all the region about 
them with perfume. Addifon. 
Me feem’d I fmelt a garden of fweet flow’rs, 
That dainty odours from them threw around, 
For damfels fit to deck their lovers’ bow’rs. Spenfsr. 
O 'DRAFT, 
